Remote Area Planning and Development board chair Rob Chandler says the community is devising a single wild dog fence plan in a bid to attract state government funding. Jenny Keogh, who chairs the opposing committee, says she is happy it will include a multi-shire and cluster fencing approach.

Biosecurity Queensland has lifted quarantine restrictions on the Mareeba banana farm that was locked down five weeks ago with Panama Tropical Race 4 (TR4). Authorities say the initial diagnosis was wrong, and the property is not infected with the devastating soil-borne fungus. Queensland's acting chief biosecurity officer Malcolm Letts has ordered an independent review into the diagnostic testing and has abandoned the molecular PCR test it now deems to be "unreliable" in early assessment of the disease.

A Senate committee has found that cuts to biosecurity staff across the country, as well as a decline in the level of scientific expertise, are eroding the nation's ability to fight and prevent pest and disease incursions.

A farmer from Humpty Doo in the Northern Territory has just returned home from a trip around the world, checking out a variety of farming practices in countries such as Kenya, Germany, the United States and Poland.

Farmers are split over the distribution of resources to tackle the wild dog problem in south east NSW. Warren Schofield, a landholder on the east Monaro who has previously worked as a pest animal controller for 8 years says a coordinator would help land holders in the long term. Ian Evans, project coordinator with Australian Wool Innovation remains open minded to how resources could be best be spent in south east NSW.